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 ‘Big Bounce’ is a big waste A Review By Hannah Pittard Halfway through “The Big Bounce,” I was already dreading having to write this review. I knew I would have absolutely nothing new to say — new, that is, in relation to what other reviewers have already said: that the movie bites. That leaves me with really just one option: to repeat what every one else has already said, but in my own way. The love interest, newcomer Sara Foster, was horrific, giving the kind of inexplicably terrible performance you might expect from a couple of outgoing fifth graders making a romantic comedy with their parents’ borrowed video equipment. Owen Wilson was funny but not in any special sort of way — not in the way that you might have come to expect from the actor who has made such outrageous appearances in movies like “Royal Tenenbaums,” “Meet the Parents,” “Bottle Rocket” and “Zoolander.” Morgan Freeman was tolerable, but ever since Harrison Ford’s performance in “Random Hearts,” I’ve been wary of aging male actors with pierced ears; it becomes increasingly difficult to separate the actor’s midlife crisis from the character’s. Honestly, the best part about seeing this movie was getting to see previews for “Starsky and Hutch,” which stars Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson and is expected to open March 5. That looks like a funny movie, a movie worthy of both Wilson and Stiller’s participation. |
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